Two weeks after the battle and we'd made exactly zero progress on figuring out what "destroy the darkness at the root" actually meant, which was frustrating and also deeply concerning given we had less than six months before the demon came back for round three.
Morgana had the entire witch archive spread across three tables in what used to be a conference room and was now just Prophecy Research Central, and I sat there staring at texts written in languages I didn't understand while she explained for the fourth time how darkness metaphors worked in ancient magical writing.
"The root could be literal." She pointed to a passage written in what looked like Latin or possibly ancient gibberish. "An actual physical location where the darkness originates. Or it could be metaphorical—a person, an object, a concept that anchors the demon's existence."
Right. So we were looking for something that could be anything anywhere. Very helpful. Extremely specific.
